Racquet's 2025 Holiday Gift Guide
We here at Racquet have amassed a guide to make your holiday gift-giving look effortlessly apropos and thoughtful. If this helps avert "tennis-scented candles" and other misguided purchases, so much the better.
To help you sort through all the noise, we're bringing back our favorite archetypes. While of course they're shallow caricatures—they somehow tend to ring true, and the fact is: We all know the following types, and we need to buy them presents.
Featured Articles
A Rammed-Earth Sanctuary in Accra
A new tennis project in the city's Osu neighborhood blends cutting-edge architecture with ancient building methods to create a harmonious space for tennis.
The New Silhouette of Italian Men’s Tennis
In her postcard from Turin, Italian photographer, writer and architect Martina Rosati outlines how Jannik Sinner's alpine discipline and Lorenzo Musetti's Mediterranean flair and fire are giving the country a spectrum to embrace.
Lo Espejo Escape
A tennis academy in a rough area of Santiago, Chile, has transformed its kids—along with the man who started it all
How Do I Deal with an Opponent Full of Excuses?
One day, not so long after implementing my methods, your hitting partner will realize God gives his most minor inconveniences to his weakest soldiers.
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Must Reads
Match Day: An Anxious Athlete’s Logbook
Wherein Randi Stern attempts her best performance as Calm Person while internally panicking that she's forgotten how to hit the ball and facing questions like “What if your partner’s on fire and you’re spinning in circles like the Roomba when it gets stuck in cords?”
Anyone for Tennis? A CT Fall Classic
On a crisp late-October afternoon, a crew of 40 New Yorkers descended upon Old Greenwich Tennis Academy, a family-run tennis club quietly sitting on one of the best party hacks of all time: rent the whole place, bring your friends, and call it a “tennis party.”
Honor Titus x Antwaun Sargent
Brooklyn-born, Los Angeles-based artist Honor Titus recently sat down with Gagosian Gallery curator Antwaun Sargent to talk about his newest works, including "Louis Malle Practice" (2025), a large-scale reproduction of which is on view on the facade Queens Museum.
Roscoe Tanner’s Second Serve: The ’80s Bad Boy in Teeny Tacchinis
We talked with Grand Slam winner and former world no. 4 Roscoe Tanner—at one time everyone’s favorite bad boy—about his time on tour with Borg and Ashe, getting out on the Champions Tour [Jim Courier: please make it happen], and tiny shorts. His new book, Second Serve, reconciles past mistakes (and there were quite a few) with what he’s learned since.
Back on the Ranch: John Gardiner Raised the Bar
